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tonightsthenight
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 Posted - Oct 09 2010 : 2:20:49 PM
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After a brief conversation with Yogani, I looked over lesson 327 http://www.aypsite.org/327.html
Wow, this is a great lesson. Several things fell into place for me here, and I applaud the mind-stage schematic in the lesson because it really helps to clarify how the process works. After a meditative run and then reading this, i suddenly saw the answer to my current dilemma, and then I had this intense pressure sensation in the forehead. very cool indeed!
First thing: It's interesting that for me, i seem to really grok this stuff when i experience it first, and then define intellectually later.
Advanced spiritual practice is all about leaving the mind behind... as an identity! But when we use the mind as a tool... its proper place... we can really get somewhere!
So in Lesson 327, AYP defines the mind-states and the trajectory of the Self as it winds its way through the different Witness states.
Now after my conversation with Yogani, and then reading the lesson, I realized how I was staying in Witness most of the time, and definitely dabbling in Discrimination and also sometimes Dispassion. I have been finding the Dispassion state, however, only in times that i am spending time alone, with much time to practice and without hindrance by "external" things. Easy to do at times like that, but not so much 24/7 
So now i see it. I am still holding on to some things, what you might call myths, and that is holding me back from being in non-duality all the time. I'll slip back into mind as self/ego sometimes, and without really knowing it.
Ego really is insidious. It gets backed in a corner and then shows its fangs! I see now that it even tries to masquerade as the voice of the Silent Witness... though it can never authentically do it.
So again, it seems, that surrendering these "myths" to the void is the path to freedom. So simple, but it's also so subtle!
I will be ramping up the Samyama and Self-Inquiry to the next level... and now these myths will be exposed to be false!
Lots of thanks to Yogani who helped me expose the beam in my eye...
Anyone care to comment? Have you read Lesson 327?
peace! 
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faileforever
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Posted - Oct 09 2010 : 3:38:23 PM
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I like how you use the word 'grok'  |
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tonightsthenight
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Posted - Oct 09 2010 : 4:00:26 PM
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Hehehehe! It just came out... I think it's from Stranger In A Strange Land. I saw the book cover the other day, so it was in my mind i suppose. Haven't read it in years, but great book!
Analysing the word, grok is a combination of knowing & perceiving... that is, knowing through the spirit, and perceiving through the intellect.
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faileforever
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Posted - Oct 09 2010 : 6:35:25 PM
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| Ive noticed you use it before in posts, very fitting word, great book too! |
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After Looking over Lesson 327
